reck

Definition of reck

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(archaic, transitive)To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.”
“[…]with that care lost / went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse / he recked not[…]”
“Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!”
“She recks not now, as of old, whether her word carries with it the sting or the sweet—it is not now in her thought to ask whether pain or pleasure follows the thoughtless slight or the scornful pleasantry. The victim suffers, but she recks not of his grief.”
“She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]”

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verb

(archaic, transitive)To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.”
“[…]with that care lost / went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse / he recked not[…]”
“Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!”
“She recks not now, as of old, whether her word carries with it the sting or the sweet—it is not now in her thought to ask whether pain or pleasure follows the thoughtless slight or the scornful pleasantry. The victim suffers, but she recks not of his grief.”
“She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]”
(archaic, catenative)To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.

“My master is of churlish disposition, / And little recks to find the way to heaven / By doing deeds of hospitality.”
(archaic, intransitive, with-of)To know about, to know of, to be aware of.

“Little recked the busy multitude in that great smoky town of Blackingham of the solemn glories of the fading woods, with all their mellow brown and crimson foliage; little dreamed they of gorgeous sunsets, purple clouds, roseate mists, and lingering lovely-coloured lights in mountain passes; […]”
(obsolete, transitive)To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
(ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal)To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.

“It recks not!”
“What recks it them?”
(dialectal, obsolete, reflexive)To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.

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Etymology

From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch),…

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From Middle English recken, rekken, reken, from Old Norse rœkja (compare Old English rēċċan, rēċan (“to care, reck, take care of, be interested in, care for, desire”); whence English retch), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care, take care”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēǵ-, *rēg- (“to care, help”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch roeken, Low German roken, ruken (“to reck, care”), German geruhen (“to deign, condescend”), Icelandic rækja (“to care, regard, discharge”), Danish røgte (“to care, tend”), Swedish rykta (“to groom”). See reckon.

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